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Stop the Killing of More Than 500 Polar Bears Each Year from International Trade in Fur and Parts

Stop the Killing of More Than 500 Polar Bears Each Year from International Trade in Fur and Parts

Natural Resources Defense Council By Andrew Wetzler Now that the world’s delegates have returned home from climate negotiations in Doha, many ministries are turning their attention to other international environmental agreements—and the consequences of climate change that echo in their implementation. One of those agreements is CITES—the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species. For […]

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    Youth Activists Urge Presidential Candidates to Address Climate Change

    Youth Activists Urge Presidential Candidates to Address Climate Change

    Energy Action Coalition More than 50 youth vote activists with the Energy Action Coalition rallied outside of the Obama for America campaign headquarters in Chicago yesterday, calling on President Obama and Mitt Romney to take action to address climate change and support clean energy. The rally coincided with the release of Mitt Romney’s energy plan, […]

    New Front Group for Big Oil Promotes Tar Sands as Safe and Secure

    New Front Group for Big Oil Promotes Tar Sands as Safe and Secure

    DeSmogBlog By Steve Horn How do you sell a rotten bag of goods? Rule number one of effective propaganda: repackage it into something seemingly less grotesque. In that spirit, the Houston Chronicle recently reported the American Petroleum Institute (API) has created yet another front group, this one to promote tar sands crude, one of the dirtiest sources of fuel in the world, as a safe and […]

    Tate Modern Museum Gets an Unwelcome ‘Gift’ in Protest of Relationship with BP

    Tate Modern Museum Gets an Unwelcome ‘Gift’ in Protest of Relationship with BP

    Oil Change International By Andy Rowell Sometimes the best things in life are so simple. What better way to protest against the sponsorship of the arts by Big Oil than to undertake your own protest art installation? [vimeo_embed http://player.vimeo.com/video/45369224 expand=1] And what is more fitting than a real wind turbine—a symbol of renewable energy—for the […]

    Are We Witnessing the End of Peak Oil?

    Are We Witnessing the End of Peak Oil?

    Oil Change International By Andy Rowell Contrary to what most people believe, oil supply capacity is growing at such an unprecedented level that it might soon outpace consumption. This could lead to overproduction and a steep dip in oil prices. That is the startling conclusion from Leonardo Maugeri, a former senior executive with Italian oil […]

    Cleveland Clinic Farmers Market Opens for Season

    Cleveland Clinic Farmers Market Opens for Season

    Cleveland Clinic Cleveland Clinic kicked of its 2012 Community Farmers Market season on June 6 with the opening of the North Union Farmers Market on Crile Mall, near East 100th Street, between Euclid and Carnegie avenues. Cleveland Clinic began the Community Farmers Market program in July 2008 as an effort to offer healthy, local food […]

    Third Alberta Oil Spill in One Month—Totaling 26,450 Barrels

    Third Alberta Oil Spill in One Month—Totaling 26,450 Barrels

    EcoWatch To borrow a popular hockey term, Canada has scored a hat trick of the worst kind: Three major oil spills in just over one month. The culprit this time around is Enbridge, the Calgary, Alberta-based operator of the world’s longest crude oil and liquids pipeline system, situated in Canada and the U.S. On June […]

    Organic Sector a Surging Component of Agricultural Economy

    Organic Sector a Surging Component of Agricultural Economy

    Organic Trade Association The Obama administration released a report on rural communities and businesses, highlighting the tremendous value of the organic sector as part of our nation’s diverse agricultural economy. The report, prepared by the Council of Economic Advisers, the White House Rural Council and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), points to numerous examples […]